Full Version - Hot Raw Chef 5 in 5 Chocolate Apricot Cookies with Louis Bush

Raw vegan chef Louis Bush, age 8 from www.RawPowerKids.com enters the Living Light Culinary Institute's Hot Raw Chef 5 in 5 Video Contest. Please vote and receive free e-book www.HotRawChef.com

Apricot Chocolate Cookies
Raw, vegan, chewy, creamy and crunchy!

Ingredients:
1/4 cup coconut oil or cacao butter, liquid (cacao butter is preferred if you want to keep the finished chocolate solid at a higher temperature)
1/4 cup cacao or carob powder
1/4 cup coconut nectar or 6 tablespoons agave nectar
1 vanilla bean, seeds
Dried Turkish apricots, halves (remember to get the ones that have NO sulfur dioxide)
Macadamia nuts, halves

Preparation:
1. To mix all ingredients, except the apricots and macadamia nuts, the coconut oil or cacao butter should be melted first. Melt by placing the oil in a glass jar into hot water.
Cacao butter - Melting Point 93 - 100 degrees Fahrenheit
Coconut Oil - Melting Point 76 Fahrenheit
Coconut oil is usually melted on warm summer days.
2. Mix very well melted coconut oil, cacao powder, and vanilla seeds in the bowl. Mix with a whisker or spoon/fork.
3. Pour chocolate sauce in to squeeze bottle.
4. Pull open the apricots with your fingers.
5. Place apricots with sticky inside facing up. Squeeze the chocolate sauce on to the inside top of half of the apricots.
6. Add macadamia nuts on top of each chocolate apricot cookie. They are ready to eat, or you can refrigerate or freeze for 5-10 min to harden chocolate. Best served cold!

Important Notes:
Choice of sweetener: If you are going to use alcohol base vanilla extract then use agave as your sweetener because the coconut oil will separate from the chocolate sauce.

Avoiding GMO's (genetically modified organism): To avoid GMO sources use only organic vanilla extract or vanilla powder.
Vanilla powder can have maltodextrin which can be made from GMO corn.
Alcohol can be made from GMO corn.
Vegetable glycerin can be made with GMO rapeseed (aka canola oil).
Cacao beans do not contain (or very little) caffeine it has a theobromine. BUT... Some manufactures add caffeine to chocolate.

Variations: Substitute dried apricots with dates or other dried fruits.

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